>On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, MegaZone wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time Christian Gatti shaped the electrons to say...
>> >Which values are recommanded for
>> >MTU? TCPMSS? TCPRWIN?
>> >in Trumpet Winsock when used to connect through PPP to a PM2
>> >which is configured with an MTU of 1500?
>>
>
>We recommend
>
>MTU=542
>TCPMSS=2048
>TCPRWIN=512
I thought the MTU should be 40 bytes larger then the TCP MSS.
The settings that we use are:
MTU = 552,
TCP RWIN=2048,
TCP MSS = 512.
>
>And don't seem to have any problems. Before people would occasionally
>have problems with web pages not loading completely.
>
>I don't remember the exact reasons for this, but someone posted a while ago
>something about Windows 3.1x having problems with higher MTU values.
>
>I also seem to remember that Megazone used to reccommend the lower values,
>but that could just be a caffine glitch.
>
>> <!-- Distribution:World Status:Verified Author:megazone -->
>> This is an ini file for Trumpet Winsock 2.1f
>> doing PPP with PAP for security, on a 28.8
>> modem:
>>
>> [Trumpet Winsock]
>> ip=0.0.0.0
>> netmask=255.255.255.0
>> gateway=0.0.0.0
>> dns=(deleted)
>> time=
>> domain=(deleted)
>> vector=00
>> mtu=1500
>> rwin=4380
>> mss=1460
>> rtomax=60
><- rest of message trimmed ->
>
>Dan Graupman
>Electro Link Network, Inc. graupman@elnet.com
>P.O. Box 711, 109B E. North St., Phone: 1-630-365-0807
>Elburn, IL 60119-0711 http://www.elnet.com
>
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